Will Smith

Dallas Children's Theater Delivers a First-Class Version of The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley

Five of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Best Coast, The Octopus Project, Brad Paisley and More

Best Coast Tuesday, May 28, at Granada Theater, $24 L.A.'s surf-pop duo Best Coast blew up on everyone's radar in 2010 when they were one of the most blog-worthy bands around after releasing their debut LP Crazy for You. Then, last year they had an equally as powerful follow-up with The Only Place, ... More >>

Holy Ship!! Wrap-Up: It Was the Best of Times....

There were a lot of grim faces on Monday morning as the electro-loving masses emerged off the MSC Poesia -- a.k.a. the EDM party boat Holy Ship!! -- and did a slow zombie shuffle through U.S. customs and back into the real world (a.k.a. Fort Lauderdale). Here in the industrial port, the sky was over ... More >>

The Eight Worst NBA/Music Crossovers

Listen, we know most of you aren't paying attention to the NBA finals like you were last year, but for those of who are (some out of Heat Hate, some out of love for the game), we've been treated to some rather abysmal NBA promos featuring Linkin Park's shitty, shitty music. This is nothing new, as ... More >>

WFAA Meteorologist Greg Fields Keeps the Spirit of Rickrolling Alive

Well, at least he did this morning, when the rather serious Dallas news personality invoked the ghost of Rick Astley (I know he's still alive) and participated in the Internet bait-and-switch phenomenon known as "Rickrolling." Which leads everyone to ask: That's still a thing?

Men in Black Goes Back in Time, but You Still Get to Pay the 2012 Price

Watch Eisley's New Video For "The Valley"

It's been a year of reinvention for Eisley, the family band based in Tyler, TX. As we've written about extensively over the course of the year, the band left Warner Brothers Records to sign with Equal Vision Records late in 2010. And, earlier this year, they released a solid come back record called ... More >>

Um, Shouldn't You Have Asked Me These Questions Before I Got on the Plane?

​Got home from the airport last night just in time to see Channel 8's piece on how Dallas PD and the FBI are prepping for the 10th anniversary of September 11. Would have been home a little sooner, but, ya know, I stopped by a Northwest Highway construction site. Oh -- and I was briefly detained b ... More >>

Here Come the Men in Black

Five Futuristic Movie Cooking Tools We Wish Were Real

I'm thinking of a huge beer...​Cooking Thanksgiving dinner is tough enough without a food replicator. Since the birth of the science fiction genre, movie-technology has inspired creative invention in the real world. So, scientists and think tanks, let's put the Star Wars Strategic Defense-enhancem ... More >>

Justin Bieber and Willow Smith Signal The Official End of the D-Town Boogie Movement By Dancing The Dougie Together Onstage.

Will Smith progeny Willow Smith joined teen heartthrob Justin Bieber on stage the other night so the two could dance--you guessed it--the Dallas-spawned Dougie together. And, just like that, the D-Town Boogie movement has officially jumped the shark. But, hey, that's good news for me, because that's ... More >>

Today In Music News: Will Smith Gets Down With The Roc, Klingon Opera Comes To Earth And Phil Collins Need Help

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, September 13, 2010...Jay-Z is helping out Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith as they seek total entertainment domination. Is the world ready for a Klingon opera?Phil Collins revealed he has to tape his drumsticks into his hands to be able to actually ... More >>

Burger Island: We Want to Go to There.

Top 100 Most Annoying Summer Songs

Shut up, Jimmy Buffett.​You know what really gives us the summertime blues? "Summertime Blues," not to mention other maddening summer hits like "All I Wanna Do," "Margaritaville" or the shotgun-in-mouth-inducing "Hot Hot Hot." It's bad enough global warming is cooking the planet like a plastic cu ... More >>

Listen: Forever The Sickest Kids Cover "Crazy Train" For Punk Goes Classic Rock.

​Today marks the release of Punk Goes Classic Rock, the ninth installment of Fearless Records' Punk Goes... cover songs series since its inception with 2000's Punk Goes Metal. Back then, it wasn't too shabby a concept; the original disc that boasted names like Strung Out, The Ataris, New Found Glo ... More >>

Today In Music News: Toby Keith Offends More People, Amazon Slips Up And Nickleback Receives Unlikely Honor

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, December 17, 2009...That Toby Keith, he loves to court controversy. He made a "racist" gesture at a Nobel Prize after party while rapping with Will Smith. Yes, you read that right... he was rapping.About 500 Lil Wayne fans are enjoying his album ... More >>

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True Story of Dallas Art Dealer and Homeless Fort Worth Man Gets a Star: Sam Jackson

It's doubtful the light saber will be necessary this time 'round. Still. Better safe than sorry.​For three years, a book recounting the relationship between a wealthy Dallas art dealer (Ron Hall) and a once-homeless Fort Worth man (Denver Moore) has been a steady hit on the inspirational circuit; ... More >>

The Old Kid

Entertainment Weekly Applauds The Secret Handshake, Offers Stream

Over on EW.com's music blog today, Dallas mall pop hero The Secret Handshake (aka Luis Dubuc) gets a whole lotta love for "TGIF" the second track (and arguably the best cut) from his upcoming My Name Up In Lights record, which will earn release on Tuesday.No real surprise that a pop culture rag lik ... More >>

Is Victory Park Verschraubt?

A little while ago, a Friend of Unfair Park forwarded along a piece from the Deutschland version of Financial Times detailing the potentially big trouble brewing at Victory Park, where, it appears, Hillwood is in danger of defaulting on a $185 million loan. Steve Brown has more or less rewritten the ... More >>

Seven Pounds

Will Smith encores his Pursuit of Happyness

Gettin' Jiggy with Holiday Giving at Will Smith's Dallas Premiere

Patrick Michels Will Smith pulls off the jersey and tie almost as heroically as Mayor Tom Leppert. Will Smith is all about good deeds these days, so if you wanted to catch the Dallas premiere of his new feel-good thriller Seven Pounds, you had to come with cans. Which was was cool with hundreds of ... More >>

Are You Still Celebrating the Willenium? Then Are You Ever in Luck, Dallas!

After the jump, the complete details on how to meetlook at Will Smith on Tuesday, when the formerly Fresh Prince comes to Dallas to not only sneak his latest feelgood redemption story, Seven Pounds, but to help fill the North Texas Food Bank's pantry before Thanksgiving. The trailer's also after ... More >>

Superzero

Hancock squanders potential greatness with lame humor and a half-baked hero

Not Bab'

The Modern hosts a foreign flick

Last Night: DJ Jazzy Jeff At Ghostbar

Old Dog Bow Wow Learns New Tricks

A rap veteran at age 20, Bow Wow dispenses advice to the next generation

Will Smith Impresses in I Am Legend

That old "last man on Earth" setup? It really works.

Mom Jeans

See celebrity moms strut their stuff

Mr. Sandman Jr.

Connick plays Nokia

Lily Allen

Alright, Still (Capitol)

Rich Man, Poor Man

Rags-to-riches flick declares: Money does indeed buy happi(y)ness

Big Willie in Big D

Not-So-Fresh Prince

Diplo's baile-funk production style is hot. His interview skills? Not so much.

Just One Hitch

Will Smith helps others find love, though probably not with this movie

Floundering

Cruel, vapid and unfunny, this Shark bites

Sacrificing Isaac

I, Robot owes little to Asimov and much to prior sci-fi cinema

Papa Tried

Family man Smith goes soft in a story about a Girl

Bad Boys of Dumber

See it, don't see it--whatcha gonna do?

Bet on Black

Men in Black II proves fun remakes aren't always an alien concept

Clay Feet

Ali lands a few solid blows, but, sadly, it's no knockout

A Snooze Runs Through It

If you love the excitement of watching golf, this Damon-Smith bore is right up your fairway

Yo Momma

Martin Lawrence proves there's a fine line between fat and phat

Collect them all!

Naked and proud and stupid -- meet the new Woodstock

Why, Wild West?

Keep yer hats on for this tepid remake

Starr chamber

Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott have a political agenda: It's called box office

Hommes en noir: film blanc

A refreshingly small, and forgettable, sci-fi farce

Rushes